[SunHELP] setting shell timeouts

[J P]

Cool, thanks!  I'll be giving this a try right away! 
You da' man, I was told it couldn't be done, I knew it
works on our consoles and other pieces, just wasn't
sure how to get it to go on the box itself. 
With MUCH thanks,
Peer

--- Nicholas Dronen <ndronen at frii.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:13:01AM -0800, J P wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > how do you set a shell timeout for every user on a
> > system, or for any one user either?
> 
> With the Korn shell, just make TMOUT a readonly
> environment variable.
> 
> $ readonly TMOUT=5; export TMOUT
> $   
> shell will timeout in 60 seconds due to inactivity
> 
> With the C shell, who knows?  I suggest simply
> not using it.  Tcsh might have something that 
> works, however.
> 
> To make this global, put it in /etc/profile.
> It's a bit tougher to make this local to a user
> without allowing them to change it.  You
> can set the environment variable in .profile
> or .kshrc, but since the user probably needs
> write permission to his or her own home directory,
> you can't prevent him or her from editing
> the file and simply logging in again.
> 
> If you want the timeout to apply only to a
> certain set of users, you can put shell
> script code in /etc/profile to check the
> user's uid (or gid) to determine whether
> to set the variable when he or she logs
> in.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nicholas Dronen
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